Year: 1999

By MSGR. LAWRENCE MCINERNY I would like to address an area of concern that touches on several areas: pastoral theology, morality, and politics. Very simply, I anticipate a movement toward legalization of various forms of […]

By DEIRDRE C. MAYS Father James M. Brucz was born in Buffalo, N.Y. Growing up in a Polish family he was raised with deeply Catholic tradition. He knew he wanted to be a priest as […]

By NANCY SCHWERIN For Father George F. Moynihan 25 years in the priesthood has gone by fast. He has been in an assignment since his ordination by Bishop Ernest L. Unterkoefler on Dec. 7, 1974, […]

By JORDAN MCMORROUGH Oratorian Father Halbert D. Weidner, a priest of The Oratory of St. Philip Neri in Rock Hill, has been in residence in Hawaii since the early 1990s. He serves at Holy Trinity […]

By PAUL A. BARRA JAMES ISLAND  On a balmy October morning in 1998, Jackie O’Shaughnessy and her grandson Rhett were enjoying their time together as they strolled down to the creek that runs behind […]

By MSGR. J. DONALD GORSKI May God’s peace and grace fill you during this holy season! May the crucified and risen Lord fill you with new life! I pray that these final months of the […]

By DEIRDRE C. MAYS CHARLESTON — The Franciscan sister who helped Our Lady of Mercy Church put an ebony corpus over its altar has had a chance to see the results of the parish’s prayers […]

By KATHLEEN SCHMUGGE COLUMBIA — As the March Madness basketball playoffs were battled out, a spiritual championship took place at the Embassy Suites here, March 19-21. The South Carolina Council of Catholic Women (SCCCW) held […]

By JORDAN MCMORROUGH LAKE WYLIE — “Youth are not the future of the church. They are the church now.” That was the message that Jerry White, director of the diocesan Youth and Young Adults Ministry […]

By JORDAN MCMORROUGH LAKE WYLIE — Scarecrow and Tinmen were no strangers to many of the teens attending the eighth annual Diocesan State Youth Conference. The group performed here previously for the Junior High Youth […]